Finds files within a directory

A function which can be used to find files within a user-defined directory based on a user-provided character string.

fileFinder(path, fileName)

Arguments

path

A directory as character. The directory to recursively search.

fileName

A character/regex string. The file name to find.

Value

Returns a directory to the most-recent file that matches the provied file Using regex can greatly improve specificity. Using regex can greatly improve specificity. The function will also write into the console the file that it has found - it is worthwhile to check that this is the correct file to avoid complications down the line

Examples

# \donttest{
# load dplyr
library(dplyr)

 # Make the RootPath to the tempdir for this example
  RootPath <- tempdir()
  
 # Load the example data
 data("beesRaw", package = "BeeBDC")

# Save and example dataset to the temp dir
  readr::write_csv(beesRaw, file = paste0(RootPath, "/beesRaw.csv"))

 # Now go find it!
fileFinder(path = RootPath, fileName = "beesRaw")
#>  - No dates in file name(s). Finding most-recent from file save time...
#>  - Found the following file(s): 
#>  /tmp/RtmplGaWYH/beesRaw.csv
#> [1] "/tmp/RtmplGaWYH/beesRaw.csv"
# more specifically the .csv version
fileFinder(path = RootPath, fileName = "beesRaw.csv")
#>  - No dates in file name(s). Finding most-recent from file save time...
#>  - Found the following file(s): 
#>  /tmp/RtmplGaWYH/beesRaw.csv
#> [1] "/tmp/RtmplGaWYH/beesRaw.csv"
# }